LSU Notes: Chick-fil-A Bowl hoping for strong TV ratings

12:36 PM,
Dec. 14, 2012

Louisiana State football coach Les Miles gets his team cranked up before a game earlier this year.

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BATON ROUGE -- One of the strongest selling points of several pre-New Year's Day college foortball bowl games, such as the Chick-fil-A Bowl in Atlanta, Ga., is being the only game in town, so to speak.

When No. 8 Louisiana State (10-2) and No. 14 Clemson University (10-2) kick off at 6:30 p.m. on ESPN on New Year's Eve -- 30 minutes from prime time -- no other game will be on television. That and similarly high poll rankings were two reasons the 2005 Chick-fil-A Bowl did so well in the ratings -- at least in the first half -- when No. 10 LSU defeated No. 9 Miami, 40-3.